results
No results
Please enter a long search term
“Design requires self awareness”
Where did the idea for the exhibition come from?
Why choose examples of Italian and German design?
“We could probably have equally made a comparison of Japanese and British design. However, travelling around the world it becomes evident that in many countries, above all in Asia and the United States, German and Italian design are held in high consideration. (…)
However we also know that these two countries have very different approaches to design, as such they signify two different poles in terms of the nature of their work. (…)
The present reality is undergoing great change: Italians work for German companies and vice versa and all of a sudden the media comes along take part in the discussion. I think that the differences between Italian design and German cannot last much longer, something that also has a positive result. So in a certain sense things are stabilising; now we can invent a new history.”
Michael Erlhoff chairs the debate “global – regional”
Exhibition poster
Enzo Mari during the debate “global – regional” at the exhibition 4:3
Michael Erlhoff the organiser
Grcic is an oversized shelf system and contains presentation folders of his work
First products in bakelite
New football teams lead by Andrea Branzi and Michael Erlhoff
Alessandro Mendini presents his island
Young Italian designers chosen and presented by Massimo Iosa Ghini
More fun with objects. Alessi set a new trend for products for the home
L‘Ulmer Hocker (stool by Ulm) – symbol of purist and functionalist German design
Carlton shelving by Ettore Sottsass – a symbol for the “anti-design” of the group Memphis
Final touches for Richard Sapper’s island
History of Italian design
At the Wiege Design island you can play football against yourself
Young German Designers “Designatics”, organisers of a mini exhibition on design in the nineties
Giving a “new value” to old furniture with design was the philosophy of the group Alchimia
Sacco – a new Italian way to sit fromGatti/Paolini/Teodoro, 1968
Bed by Joe Colombo (1930-71) was built for the first time for this exhibition
View from above of the main exhibition hall
The first domestic appliances in plastic from Ex-DDR seem to anticipate today’s objects
Yellow’s design is not concerned just with aesthetics, but also the ecological side
Footballers on the same pole play in two different directions
Frog Design: the computer is like a golden ball in a well from the fairy tale “the frog prince”
Rounded forms and glossy colours already decorated televisions in the sixties in Ex-DDR
Meta Design, advertising agency, present their projects via a game of sliding panels
The roof, transformed into a car park, with some of the most famous cars of the last fifty years
The design of cars has always been one of the most important factors for the success of a model
Santachiara: interaction with artificial nature: birds in movement start to sing
View gallery